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Members may be interested in this upcoming event hosted by the Centre
for Citizenship, Identity and Governance at the Open University. If interested
please RSVP [log in to unmask]
Details below.
Regards, James Ash
CCIG Keynote Lecture (part of CCIG forum 12)
www.open.ac.uk/ccig/
Tuesday 13th April 2010 15.30-17.00 –The Open University, Walton
Hall Campus,
Deborah P. Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor,
“Reading Sigmund Freud’s Group psychology today”
Freud’s 1921 study, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of
the Ego” is used as an occasion for raising a number of conundrums for
social theory, education, and psychoanalysis. This lecture returns to
Freud’s text as a turning point in psychoanalytic theory and as an
argument for thinking freedom. I raise a number of questions. Why does Freud
turn to mythology and to the poets when constructing affecting problems of
identification found in ordinary modes of cultural life? Why do groups create
libidinal ties? What counts as group psychology if what also counts is the
unconscious and sexuality? Can individual psychology shed light on the analysis
of the social order?
RSVP Pearl Whitney ([log in to unmask])
to confirm your attendance. For further information about CCIG Forums and
keynotes, please contact James Ash ([log in to unmask]).
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